Volume 1

Catalogue of the remaining portion of the library of the late Joseph Frank Payne, M.D. F.R.C.P., Librarian to the Royal College of Physicians; Hon. Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford; Emeritus Harveian Professor; consulting physician to St. Thomas's Hospital; late President of the Pathological, Epidemiological and Dermitological Societies : comprising his collection of rare herbals and other natural history books, a series of the first and later editions of John Milton's writings and Miltoniana, and old and modern books in general literature. Which will be sold by auction by messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge... on Tuesday, the 30th of January, 1912, and following day.

  • Payne, Joseph Frank, 1840-1910.
Date:
1912
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Credit: Catalogue of the remaining portion of the library of the late Joseph Frank Payne, M.D. F.R.C.P., Librarian to the Royal College of Physicians; Hon. Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford; Emeritus Harveian Professor; consulting physician to St. Thomas's Hospital; late President of the Pathological, Epidemiological and Dermitological Societies : comprising his collection of rare herbals and other natural history books, a series of the first and later editions of John Milton's writings and Miltoniana, and old and modern books in general literature. Which will be sold by auction by messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge... on Tuesday, the 30th of January, 1912, and following day. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    451 Boethius (A. M. T. S.) De Consolatione Philosophiae lib. Y, lit. gotf). long lines, 31 to a full page, with signs. (44 ll. a j, title with woodcut wanting), [not in Ham, who mentions an edition of Daventer, 1493 ; nor in Proctor], wooden boards, with covers of an ancient Latin MS. Impressum Daventriae in Platea episcopi anno dui MCCCCXCii Vicesimoquinto Januarii (s. n. impressoris), 1492 452 Hierocles. In Aureos Versus Pythagorae Opusculum Praestan- tissimum et Religioni Christianae consentaneum (latine redditum a Jo. Aurispa), editio princeps, lit. rom. long lines, 24 to a full page (83 leaves only out of the 91) without signs. [Hain *8545 ; Proctor 6763], modern French morocco extra, g. e. by Coramat, rare Patavii impressum per Bart, de Valde Zoccho, 1474 453 Ortelius (Abr.) Epitome of the Theater of the Worlde, nowe latelye renewed and augmented, the Mappes all newe graven by M. Coignet, Mathematitian of Antwarpe, engraved title and 125 maps (several leaves cut in headline), old calf sm. oblong ito. Printed for Jeames Shawe, 1603 454 Prynne (Wm.) The Unloveliness of Love-Lockes (title and two leaves mended-, stained), printed anno 1628—The Regal 1 Apology; or the Declaration of the Commons, Feb. 11, 1647, Canvassed 1648—Featly (D.) Sacra Nemesis, or the Levites Scourge, frontispiece, Oxford, J. Lichfield, 1644—An Humble Remonstrauce to the High Court of Parliament (last leaf de- fective), N. Butter, 1640—Hooker (R.) Ecclesiastical Politie, the sixth and eighth Books, R. Bishop, 1648 (5) 455 Andreini (G. B.) L’Adamo, Sacra Representatione, edizione seconda, engraved title and 40 fine plates after the designs of C. A. Procaccini, with engraver's mark cB, (sig. A 1 missing), calf gilt, m. e. Milano, ad instanzia di Geron. Bordoni, 1617 *** The work is supposed to have given Milton ideas for his Paradise Lost. Five leaves at end are occupied by learned contemporary MS. notes in French relating to the Work. 456 Milton (J.) Areopagitica ; A Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlia- ment of England, first edition (marginal note on page 8 slightly cut into), new niger morocco, lettered in gold on upper side, rough edges, by S. Cobden-Sanderson, extremely rare Printed in the yeare 1644 457 Milton (J.) Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce (The), second edition (several leaves cut into), unbound Imprinted in the yeare 1644 458 Milton (J.) Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce (The), restored to the Good of both Sexes, etc. now the Second Time Revis’d and much Augmented, etc. (title defective), new boards (rough edges) Imprinted 1645 459 Milton (J.) Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce ; another copy (last line of errata cut off), unbound ib. 1645-